Wogan Family History
Wogan Name Meaning
Welsh English and Irish (Dublin): from the Old Welsh personal name Guoccaun which derives from the ancestor of Modern Welsh gogawn ‘honour glory’. In Middle Welsh it became Gwogon and Gwogan and was adopted as a surname by a south Pembrokeshire Anglo-Norman family in the normanized or Anglicized pronunciation Wogan. Compare Cadogan . In Ireland the name has been Gaelicized as Úgán.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022